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Jellicoe Water Gardens, Hemel Hempstead

The Jellicoe Water Gardens, opened in 1962, are of national importance. Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (1900 - 1996) was one of the foremost landscape architects of the 20th Century and this is now a unique example of his work. The gardens are under restoration, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Big Lottery and Dacorum Borough Council.

This site gathers recollections, stories and photographs about the Water Gardens. You can listen to people telling their stories or download the transcripts.

  • Water Gardens
    Water Gardens
  • Working on the Gardens 1960 - 2000

    Working on the Gardens 1960 - 2000 (6)

    Memories of people who worked in the gardens
  • Jellicoe Water Gardens in the past

    Jellicoe Water Gardens in the past (13)

    Recollections from 1960s onwards
  • Before the water gardens

    Before the water gardens (9)

    Memories of the area round the banks of the Gade before the gardens were built
  • The Restoration Project 2013 onwards

    The Restoration Project 2013 onwards (4)

    Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Big Lottery
Hemel Hempstead and surrounding villages
  • 'Kodak Tower' replacement
  • 'Little more than a tub of water on wheels'
  • 101 years of cinemas in Hemel Hempstead
  • A possible member of Hemel Hempstead Movie Makers
  • A tale of two companies is part of explosive gas history
  • A vital source of education or a hotbed of infidelity
  • Astley Cooper : surgeon to rich and famous
  • Bream's Coaches of Hemel Hempstead
  • Buncefield Fuel Depot Fire
  • Bury Mill End School
  • Can you identify 6? Leisure & Hobbies show 1994
  • Dacorum our Heritage
  • Demolition of a Princess
  • Dragons in England
  • FFEI Ltd (formerly Fujifilm Electronic Imaging and Crosfield Electronics) before and after Buncefield explosions on 11 December 2005
  • Film of Hemel Hempstead
  • Film of Hemel Hempstead New Town
  • First World War
  • First World War
  • Fish Stories
  • Gert's childhood Hemel
  • Hemel Hempstead / Felden
  • Hemel Hempstead cricket club's tale of long innings
  • Hemel Hempstead Hospital Blues.
  • Hemel Hempstead Local History and Museum Society
  • Hemel Hempstead Old Town
  • Hemel Hempstead Old Town Hall Memories
  • Hemel's Medieval Wall
  • How drinkers got The Boot and ended up Legge-less
  • Is this the original "Meals on Wheels" team?
  • Japanese visit Dacorum
  • Jimmy & Maria Bolino
  • Jimmy Bolino
  • Joan Allen's Memories
  • Joan Allen's Memories
  • Joan Allen's Memories
  • Joan Allen's Memories
  • Joan Allen's Memories
  • Joan Allen's Memories
  • Just four out of 24 pubs still pull pints in the High Street
  • Lark in the Park
  • Lt. Gilman Dorr Blake, US Army Air Force. Died January 1945.
  • Mary Smith
  • Memoirs of Alan French
  • Memories of James Hayter and Roger Livesey
  • Memories of Phyllis
  • Memories of Wood Lane
  • More Mayors?
  • Mountfield Road & Seymour Crescent Coronation 1953
  • My First Memories Were of Hemel Hempstead
  • My Hertfordshire
  • My Hertfordshire
  • My uncle Bert's pub
  • New book brings a historic industry to life
  • Painting without paints
  • Petitions from Hemel Hempstead re the abolion of slavery, 1830
  • Plough Roundabout aka the Magic Roundabout
  • Postcards saw romance blossom for photographer
  • Queen Street
  • Rail disaster that claimed 43 lives
  • Resources for Schools
  • Revelations of life in Hemel Hempstead in Tudor Times
  • Rose's Lime Juice at Boxmoor Wharf
  • Royal Visit
  • School books its place in history
  • The 'extraordinary' market that put Hemel Hempstead on the map
  • The Empty Room
  • The exciting life and times of the boxing hero of Hemel
  • The inns and outs of town's public houses
  • The Morton family in Hemel Hempstead
  • The Queen's Coronation
  • The Queen's visit to Hemel Hempstead in 1952
  • Town's 'gateway' pub was victim of lakeside project
  • Treacle Bumpstead: The Movie.
  • Victorian tourists snapped up this continental crockery
  • War and boom prompted an exodus from city to town
  • Water the Vital Resource
  • William Gower
  • William Hall
  • Dacorum U3A (University of the Third Age)
  • Adeyfield
  • Bennetts End
  • Chaulden
  • Gadebridge
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